Thursday: Nearly 150 childcare centres closed across Australia amid Covid threat. Plus: tell us the bird you want to see in this year’s poll
Good morning. More than 100 childcare centres across Australia have been closed due to the “immediate risk” posed to children by the Delta variant. There are nearly 3,000 documented cases among children under 10 and the federal government is being urged to outline a vaccination timeline for this cohort. Australians are experiencing “behavioural fatigue” after a series of lockdowns, with experts saying: “It may not be so much about complacency but about people’s capacity to comply with lockdown restrictions.”
More than 4,000 homeless and vulnerable Australians have taken up free vaccinations under an initiative in central Sydney, with calls for the program to be replicated across Australia. Case numbers in NSW appear set to rise further, with the R-factor – the virus reproduction number – now at 1.3, and the source for only one-quarter of new infections known.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/19/morning-mail-deltas-risk-to-kids-interpreter-shot-in-kabul-bird-of-the-year
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